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Sunday, 27 November 2011

Here is our next stop, a little boutique hotel called Camps Bay Retreat.The hotel has 3 resident dogs – Wanda is the spaniel in the collage.You walk down through the gardens and down a little path onto the wonderful Camps Bay beach in Cape Town.

Monday, 21 November 2011

I’m on holiday at the moment in South Africa and decided that as I go along I’m going to make a collage journal of the places I have been to.My first stop is my sister who is a naturopath.Three of the things she loves are flowers, buddhas and cats.Also, photographs around the house are put into beautiful frames so I went around the house taking pictures and this first collage represents my view of her and her house:

Friday, 4 November 2011

The theme for this week's Photo Friday Art was to get out of one's comfort zone and try a technique that you have been wanting to try for sometime.

I have a wide screen design Trust Pen Tablet and I seldom use it although I know that it would give me so many more opportunities if I did, so I decided to use it to do this week's art photo. I wanted to somehow use the tracing and sketching possibilities of the tablet to give a photo a painterly effect.

Here is the result. It reminds me of an old dark oil painting:

Here is the original cropped picture:

Here are the pieces of the picture that I traced and filled in using my pen tablet. The blue lines were on a separate transparent layer and once I had drawn them I used the smudge tool to make them softer:

This is the background layer. I changed the hue and applied a cut-out filter:

I blended two layers of the drawn lily on top of the background layer and added a free texture by Shadowhouse Creations (man, I love his stuff!):